AMA CPT® Assistant - 2019 Issue 6 (June)
Surgery: Cardiovascular System (Q&A) (June 2019)
June 2019 page 14b Surgery: Cardiovascular System Question: When bilateral kissing iliac artery stents are deployed due to only a right common iliac artery stenosis, should two stent placements be reported, or just the placement in the diseased right artery? Answer: The Endovascular Revascularization (Open or Percutaneous, Transcatheter) subsection's guidelines in the CPT code set state that "codes 37220-37235 are to be used to describe lower extremity endovascular revascularization services performed for occlusive disease." Note that the guideline does not state that the vessels being treated must each have a separately identifiable and stenotic lesion. There may be...
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